Recent work on numerically-quantified expressions has aimed to identify which components of their meaning are semantic and which are pragmatic. Pragmatically-oriented accounts assign a crucial role to contextual factors, such as the level of information requested in the precedin…
Context is a core notion of linguistic theory. However, while there are numerous attempts at explaining single aspects of the notion of context, these attempts are rather diverse and do not easily converge to a unified theory of context. The present multi-faceted collection of p…
" This volume is a collection of original papers on the notion of context in linguistics. Six of the ten articles are based on papers presented at a Workshop on Context, held in February 2011 at the Annual Meeting of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS) at the Georg-August-Univ…
Recent work on numerically-quantified expressions has aimed to identify which components of their meaning are semantic and which are pragmatic. Pragmatically-oriented accounts assign a crucial role to contextual factors, such as the level of information requested in the precedin…